Mobile App Development Process Android| Ios

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What is Mobile App Development?
Mobile App Development involves developing software applications that run mobiles, & other portable devices. These software applications can be pre-installed on devices, or downloaded and installed by the users later. Creating software for mobile apps, integrating backend services like data access APIs, and testing the application on target devices are all part of mobile application development services.
Mobile App Development Platforms
IOS from Apple and Android from Google are the two major app development platforms for mobile. Apple uses its iOS application especially for its own devices, while Google android is made available for mobiles and companies that fall under android software application criteria.
Mobile app development process.
Any process or procedure to begin starts with an idea and transforms the idea into a product or service that solves the targeted audience's problems. Similar to the mobile app development process it involves in
1. Recognize the need of the ...
... customers
2. Creating the device
3. Testing the device
1. Recognize the need of the customers:
It is the necessary and basic step in the application development process to recognize the need of customers and understand the customers’ pain points. This involves questioning things like. What is the objective of our product? How will the app solve the problems of customers? What is the business strategy? How much it costs to build the app? What is the estimated revenue? Etc. All these things get in after brainstorming the idea that clicked in my brain. After brainstorming the idea and recognizing the need of the customer then the future steps involve:
A) Competitor research B) Target audiences C) Users research
A) Competitor Research: During these steps, you try to find out the total competitors in the market for the product you’re developing. The revenue cost of the application, time taken to build the technology& frameworks they use in developing the application, & their market position, etc.
B) Target audiences: Who are the target audiences? How do they find our application?
C) User’s research: What unique features does your software offer that other programmers don't? Which business model do your customers use? The market price of the product
2. Creating the device:
It involves planning, designing, and developing the product. Creating the MVP (minimum Viable Product) by adding a version of your software with sufficient features to present it to your early users so that you may get feedback on the characteristics of the product and potential development. It helps in
1. Knowing the features that work for the customers
2. Helps in minimizing the time, expenditure & effort on the products
3. Act as a basement for the original product.
A) UX\ UI Design: UX process involved calculating the amount of satisfaction that customers get while using mobile apps. The emotional core process that customers feel while using the app factors like designing, branding, and functional usability of the mobile apps also include marketing of the product, package of the product and post-sales support to the customers.
UI mainly involves designing user-friendly prototypes & frameworks for customers about observing current design trends.
1 Creating user flow pathway 2 Wireframe development 3. Selection of color palettes, template designing, and elements required for interface creation of mobile apps. 4. Finalize the mockup by user comments.

B) Development Phase: The development phase involves adding the software applications for the developed wireframe works with the help of codes, and APIs. It mainly consists of 3 phases include
1. Frontend Development
2. Developing API ( Application Programming Interference)
3. Backend Development
1. Frontend Development Phase: Frontend development mainly involves providing user experience while using mobile apps. UI/UX process mainly focused on frontend development targeting the end users while using the mobile apps
The primary focus of frontend developers is to make things look easier and focus on what actions do get notified when the end users touch any icons while using the mobile apps.
These actions include alarm notifications, Gmail notifications, etc, these collected data is sent to servers in the form of inputs to process the future actions that are performed by the backend developers.
The frontend development can is native or hybrid, where hybrid functions mainly on a platform agonistic stack that runs with HTML5 and JS codes while the native runs with native tech stark platform.

2. Backend Development Phase: Backend Development takes place on the server–side behind the screen of mobile application development. It involves all the critical roles performed in mobile application development. Backend functions primarily involve data verification, data authentication, data storage, data backup and restoration, security, the privacy of the devices, and server-side scripting. The performance of any mobile application primarily depends on well-built backend development

3. API: API stands for (Application Programming Index), it is a software application that acts as an intermediator between two business company applications to access their services and products and help ease the flow of communication.
For Example, API can be connected with a food restaurant and food ordering person where the delivery person act as an API between the two that build communication and brings updated information.
API helps in the interaction of 2 application software that helps in free flow access of communication service/ product with each other and exchanges each other data through the documented interface.
- API helps business companies to make new connections easier with 3rd parties that help in providing new markets and help in opening new markets to the companies
- API act as a building layer between the data and server and helps in protecting the data of the user

3) Testing Phase:
The testing phase is designed to ensure that the application meets the requirements of its users and has no bugs. The process is also designed to make sure that the application can handle any potential problems in the future.
There are many different types of tests that are carried out depending on what stage of development the app is at. The tests can be categorized as unit, integration, system, performance, or acceptance tests.
Platform Testing is done to ensure that the application or website is compatible with different devices. It also provides that the app or website is working as expected on each device and operating system.
Functional Testing: This type of test checks if there are any bugs in the app or website which might stop it from functioning as expected. It also verifies and ensures that each function runs by built specifications. During functional testing either a single unit is tested or combined modules are merged are tested to verify the applied software.
Performance Testing: It checks how fast the application responds to user requests on different devices. With the help of Performance testing, one can check the mobile app's performance consistency. Things like 1) volume testing, 2) stability testing, 3) Responsive time testing 4) Memory and battery testing, etc can be known through these processes.
Documentation Testing: It involves the testing of documented artifacts that are developed before or after software testing Documented Testing results in estimating the things on requirement tracking, testing efforts, and so on. 1) Documentation Testing involves checking of creation analysis of navigation flow 2) Analyzing the test cases and plans
Security Testing: Everyone is concerned about data and security. Security testing helps in testing the mobile applications whether the applications are prone to any security or data leaks, or sensitive data that can be get hacked by hackers.
Some of the security testing analysis includes
1) Threat analysis of authentication of login credentials
2) Checking the possibilities/risks of software applications hacked by hackers
3) Allowing permissions to the given applicants.
Usability Testing: This type of testing is done to check the capabilities o mobile apps and ensure that the mobile applications offer a good user experience in the end. Does usability Testing help identify the areas of improvement in UI/UX designs or any future improvements needed With the help of Performance testing one can check the mobile apps?

The last stage of any mobile application development includes reviewing the mobile apps and its application and getting feedback from the users
B) The Review Stage:
The review process is the most essential part of the testing process. It is where you summarize all of the information from your testing and provide feedback on what you have found.
Reviews are created to provide feedback on a product or service. They are one of the most important parts of any product development process.
The review process consists of three steps:
1) Create a summarized report about the testing
2) Review it and then
3) Deliver your feedback to those who will be able to make changes based on your findings

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